“Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.” WellsCountryCharacterArtistEnergyPayMistakeAcceptingStyleWillingMaterialsPersonalitySucceedPrejudiceWell BeingSpokesSensationsGreat ArtFanaticismGreat ArtistPay The Price Author:Cyril Connolly
“You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'” IfsWantTryingKindDifferentHardEnoughMovingMistakeStudyPersonalityGet UpEmployeeMaking MistakesI Want YouKeep MovingResilientSame MistakesTrying HardMaking The Same Mistakes Author:Trip Hawkins
“If you are aware that people are coming to you to receive your gift and not necessarily to you as the person, it keeps you very humble. Many people make the mistake of confusing the attraction of people to their lives as something that has to do with them as a person or a personality, and this is very dangerous and not true.” PeopleIfsPersonsMistakeDangerousPersonalityHumbleAttractionConfusing Author:Myles Munroe
“I think the biggest mistake anyone can make is trying to be the next someone, and try to mimic or copy someone who is already out there because you have to produce your own personality and your own sound, and go from there. That is something all great broadcasters have been able to do.” ThinkingTryingHas BeensAbleNextSoundMistakeProducePersonalityCopiesBiggest MistakeBroadcasters Author:Joe Bowen
“Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here.” HumansKindSeemsBeautifulMistakePersonalityGenesSusceptibleMulticulturalEdificeUncannyFlippedMutantsHuman Personality Author:Geraldine Brooks
“We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.” NeedsSinMistakePersonalityGrappling Author:E. Stanley Jones